Waymo Patents Contrastive Learning to Align Self-Driving Sensor Data with Language
Waymo's latest patent trains its autonomous vehicle sensors by teaching them to agree — not just with each other, but with natural…
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Waymo Patents a Real-Time Acceleration Envelope for Self-Driving Cars
Waymo's latest patent tackles one of the trickiest problems in autonomous driving: how does a self-driving car know exactly how hard it…
Waymo Patents an On-Board Vision-Language Model That Answers Questions About the Road Ahead
Waymo is patenting a system that lets different parts of a self-driving car ask a vision-language model focused questions about specific patches…
Google Patents an Automated Camera Quality Scoring and Correction System
Google has filed a patent for a system that automatically grades individual aspects of a camera image — sharpness, exposure, color balance,…
Google Patents a Security Platform That Diagnoses and Fixes Itself
Most security platforms tell you something went wrong — Google's patent describes one that figures out why and fixes itself before you…
Salesforce's New Patent Wants to Replace Your Procurement Team With AI Agents
Salesforce is patenting a system where AI agents don't just suggest procurement actions — they take them, autonomously contacting suppliers on your…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants to Use Regular Wi-Fi to Sneak You Onto 60 GHz
Connecting to Wi-Fi at 60 GHz is fast — but getting there is complicated. Qualcomm's new patent wants to use your regular…
Qualcomm Patents a Video Noise Filter That Knows When to Leave the Picture Alone
Most video noise filters run all the time, blurring fine detail even in clean footage. Qualcomm's new patent describes a system smart…
Qualcomm's New Patent Cleans Up the Seams Between Video Decoding Tiles
When your phone decodes a video, it quietly slices each frame into processing tiles — and the seams between those tiles can…
Qualcomm's New Patent Turns Your XR Headset into a Live Radar for Lost Devices
Qualcomm wants your XR headset to act like a live radar screen — using radio signals to pinpoint where your phone, remote,…
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